Quite apart from the eek-factor of having small, crawling, web-making creatures lurking in your mobile changing room/home-away-from-home, these spiders are posing a pretty big risk to drivers. The critters — who, as it turns out, just can't get enough of those gasoline hydrocarbons — make their way into the cars' evaporative emissions systems. There, they get comfortable. They weave some webs. These webs then cause a blockage in the air flow, leading to negative pressure in the fuel tank. What happens when there's a build-up of negative pressure in a fuel tank? Oh, you know, just a few cracks or leaks — that can cause sparks, fires, and explosions.

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So far, though, nothing that serious has actually happened. Still, Suzuki received not one, but seven complaints about spiders clogging up the vent hoses, before they decided to issue a recall. Now, according to a press release published by the NHTSA, thousands of Suzuki Kizashi cars will have to go back to their dealers where their existing vents will be replaced by spider-proof ones, which will have a little filter on them.

Although Suzuki hasn't specified the type of spider that infested its sedans, it's likely that it's the same culprit that plagued the Mazda6: the dreaded yellow sac, which, according to Michigan State University, is behind "more human bites that any other type of spider." (Unless, of course, it's something much, much more terrifying.)